(04-15-2019 04:14 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 06:34 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  So after reading this thread I decided to call in a 6 pack to go at Coleman's here in Hernando. Some kinda good, frankly.

So there are still Coleman's around? The ones I grew up on - Pickwick, Adamsville, Selmer, Jackson - are all closed.

Hernando, MS on the main drag. 2000 feet from i55.

(04-15-2019 08:10 AM)BinghamptonNed Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 09:53 AM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

(04-04-2019 05:06 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(04-03-2019 09:43 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  Bozo's close? They used to be the best.

Still open. Still good. Just want a Tops out this way for the burgers and occasional bbq

Tops was supposed to move into Lakeland where the old Mickey D's was located, but the f'd up politics forced them to reconsider.

My source says Tops is looking at a new free standing building in the new Kroger shopping center in Arlington.

This is not unique to Topps . Lakeland is about as unfriendly to business as anyplace around here, MUCH worse than Germantown. Germantown will basically tell a business they are not wanted up front. - Lakeland will want a new business then put up so many restrictions - often changing from meeting to meeting - that the business owner will decide to locate elsewhere.

Sounds like Hernando. Every new business must be brick and the signs must be ground level. Before we got a Waffle House I had the guy trying to open one say it was gonna cost him an extra 50 grand to build it to their code.

Cracker Barrel wanted to build in Hernando next to 55 and were told they couldn't put up the tall sign next to the interstate, so they backed out.

I actually like the strict restrictions to keep it from turning into another Horn Lake/Southaven. But it's kind of getting out of hand with the traffic and lack of roads and businesses to handle the population.

(04-08-2019 01:01 PM)3601 Wrote:  Best beans I ever had were at Gridley's.

I really like the sauce at Tops. Many of the places in town have sauce that is too sweet.

Gridley's was the best BBQ restaurant ever in the Memphis area.

You're right about their beans.

NASCAR guy was right about Blue Plate used as a base for the Sauce. But that's been done here for years on end. The difference is some do it better than others.

That Coleman's BBQ that Hernando was referring to has been there since 1971.



The work of A.B. Coleman – first with Loeb’s BBQ and then with his namesake barbecue chain.

Before those ventures, Coleman had brief stints with Tops and Little Pigs of America and then opened his own Tasty Pit Bar-B-Q shops.

The first was on Winchester, the second at 698 Waring, This picture, framed along with a dollar bill, notes the beginning of Coleman’s association with Loeb’s.

Coleman is second from the right, and his wife is third from the right.

The dollar bill is signed by William Loeb and dated May 21, 1963, probably to celebrate their business collaboration.

So Hernando is the original Colemans? What was Mrs Colemans first name?

Mae Coleman. Played golf in a scramble with her. I think she still owns it.

The one I miss most is Little Pigs on Highland. Went there at least once a week while I was at MSU.

i miss smokey ridge

liked juice and the help he had working for him

stopped by the sycamore view location today to buy a gallon of cole slaw for an easter bbq.

even used a coupon with the purchase.

tops is okay with me

Love a Tops burger.

Order Top's BBQ sandwich pulled brown. IMO the taste and texture is way better as opposed to chopped. For me when it is chopped you mostly taste the sauce. Pulled brown the smokey flavor is way better and the meat isn't pre chewed.

If they stop scorching the sauce, I might be in.

I'll get the burger once in a blue moon but my wife get BBQ.

Their fries can be great if cooked properly.

(04-19-2019 05:18 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  The one I miss most is Little Pigs on Highland. Went there at least once a week while I was at MSU.

Still the best pork sandwich I ever had anywhere.

(06-20-2019 08:34 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(04-19-2019 05:18 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  The one I miss most is Little Pigs on Highland. Went there at least once a week while I was at MSU.

Still the best pork sandwich I ever had anywhere.

It was good. Here's a good oral history article about them from before they closed...

https://www.southernfoodways.org/intervi...-b-q-2002/

Any association to Three Little Pigs on Quince?

Had 3LP a few times, decent.

(06-21-2019 10:55 AM)New Here 101 Wrote:  Any association to Three Little Pigs on Quince?

Had 3LP a few times, decent.

It was a chain.

I knew a guy who worked there and he would sell us beans that was bbq instead

(06-21-2019 10:41 AM)3601 Wrote:  

(06-20-2019 08:34 PM)Claw Wrote:  

(04-19-2019 05:18 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  The one I miss most is Little Pigs on Highland. Went there at least once a week while I was at MSU.

Still the best pork sandwich I ever had anywhere.

It was good. Here's a good oral history article about them from before they closed...

https://www.southernfoodways.org/intervi...-b-q-2002/

Thanks for posting that. I could hear her voice.

(06-21-2019 11:47 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 10:55 AM)New Here 101 Wrote:  Any association to Three Little Pigs on Quince?

Had 3LP a few times, decent.

It was a chain.

I knew a guy who worked there and he would sell us beans that was bbq instead

Little Pigs on Highland was not part of the Three Little Pigs chain. It may have been at one time, but it wasn't when the Musarra family ran it.

Interesting but I was in Tops last week. They had some brand new bottles on the counter with sauce in them. One of them was Sweet. The other was the old sauce and then the hot one. If tradition holds true none of those bottles will be there next week.

(06-24-2019 05:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 11:47 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 10:55 AM)New Here 101 Wrote:  Any association to Three Little Pigs on Quince?

Had 3LP a few times, decent.

It was a chain.

I knew a guy who worked there and he would sell us beans that was bbq instead

Little Pigs on Highland was not part of the Three Little Pigs chain. It may have been at one time, but it wasn't when the Musarra family ran it.

Chain was probably too strong a word. Might have just been local with one set of owners when originally built. Like the Loebs stores.

(06-25-2019 08:05 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 05:13 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 11:47 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 10:55 AM)New Here 101 Wrote:  Any association to Three Little Pigs on Quince?

Had 3LP a few times, decent.

It was a chain.

I knew a guy who worked there and he would sell us beans that was bbq instead

Little Pigs on Highland was not part of the Three Little Pigs chain. It may have been at one time, but it wasn't when the Musarra family ran it.

Chain was probably too strong a word. Might have just been local with one set of owners when originally built. Like the Loebs stores.

The Musarra family that owned Little Pigs on Highland when I was at MSU did own a few other Little Pigs. But my understanding is that the Three Little Pigs shops were not part of this family - totally different ownership.